The Indiana Governor's Residence is was on the 20th Annual Holiday Home Tour presented by the Easter Seals Crossroads Guild in 2007.

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Lesley Weidenbener
TheStatehouseFile.com

Gov.-elect Mike Pence will move with his wife, 18-year-old daughter, two cats and a dog into the governor's residence when he takes office in January, making the family the first full-time inhabitants of the historic home in eight years.

Outgoing two-term Gov. Mitch Daniels and wife, Cheri, spearheaded a $1.2 million effort -- all from private donations -- to renovate and redecorate the home during the Republican's first term in office.

But the Daniels family never moved there. The couple stayed instead at their homes first in the Geist Reservoir and then in Carmel, with the governor ...